Runestone from Södra Lunger

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Runestone from Södra Lunger

The rune stone of Södra Lunger (also "Kung Sigges Sten" - German  King Sigges stone ; Samnordisk runtextdatabas Nä 31) is located south of Södra Lunger near Götlunda in Närke in Sweden .

The simply designed runestone from the 11th century stands in the middle of an Iron Age stone ship on the burial ground Lungeråsen , on the crest of Lungeråsen. A road runs along the ridge, which over time damaged the east side of the ship's settlement. The damage to the ship's settlement was repaired in 1864.

The stone was first mentioned in 1667 in a report written by the then pastor of Götlunda. It is also included in a report from 1683. Johan Göstaf Hallman (1701–1757) made a drawing of the stone at the beginning of the 18th century, which was included in Johan Peringskiöld's (1654–1720) Monumenta . Hallman noted that the farmers in the neighborhood called the stone Kung Sigges stone, which refers to the name Sigmund on the stone.

The ornament has the shape of a snake, which can be seen from a bird's eye view ( Swedish fågelperspektiv ). It is reminiscent of the Åsbysten (Nä 15) on the south side of the Hjälmaren .

Kung Sigges stone is made of red-gray granite and 1.15 m high. The rune height varies between 4.5 and 15.5 cm and the runes are deeply cut, well preserved and the words separated by colons.

inscription

inscription

The inscription reads: helgulfʀ: auk: keiʀlifʀ: þeiʀ: kerþu: eftiʀ: sigmunt: bruþur sin

"Helgulv and Gerlev made (a monument?) For Sigmund, her brother."

The names Helgulv and Gerlev were uncommon during the Viking Age. Gerlev is a combination of “keiR” (spear) and “lifR” (man). It is unusual that the name contains a capital R in the middle and not just at the end of the word.

Sune Lindqvist is of the opinion that the rune scorer added the letter sequence “bru” (“bridge”) to the word “kerþu” and refers this to a landing bridge built by the brothers in Hjälmaren. Lindqvist's theory was rejected, the lines leading to his interpretation are interpreted as a correction of the rune scratcher error.

literature

  • Sven Birger Fredrik Jansson: Närkes runinskrifter (= Sveriges runinskrifter Volume 14.1) Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1975, ISBN 91-7192-204-0 , pp. 94-100. ( online )
  • Klaus Düwel: Runic lore . 3. Edition. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2001.
  • Lars Magnar Enoksen: Runor - Historia, Tydning, Tolkning . Historiska Media, Lund 1998.
  • Mårten Stenberger: Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 .

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Coordinates: 59 ° 18 ′ 16.5 "  N , 5 ° 40 ′ 45.6"  E